Curriculum – Grades 3 & 4

·         Reading Workshop

Author Study

Comprehension Strategies

1. Activating Schema

2.     Questioning

3.     Visualizing

4.     Inferring

5.     Synthesizing

6.     Metacognition

Spotlight on Literacy – Narrative and Expository Text

·         Handwriting

Writer’s Workshop

1. Writing Process

2.     Grammar and Mechanics

3.     Poetry

4.     Informational

5.     Research Project & Presentation

6.     Personal Style

3^rd Grade- Fables, Folktales or Realistic Fiction

4^th Grade- Myths, Legends, Fantasy or Adventure

·         Wordly Wise

·         Spelling – Vocabulary

·         Speaking Conventions/Discourse

·         Listening Conventions/Response

·         Number notation & place value

·         Addition & Subtraction

·         Multiplication Concepts & Facts

·         Division Concepts & Facts

·         Fractions

-Relation to whole number

-Addition & Subtraction

-Decimal fractions in relation to $

·         Number notation & place value

·         Addition & Subtraction

·         Multiplication & Division

·         Fractions Concepts

-Decimal fraction s

-Add & Subtract fractions

-Multiply &  Divide fractions

·         Customary & Metric Units

-Length & Capacity

·         Time & Elapsed Time

·         Customary and Metric Units

-Length, Capacity, Weight & Mass

·         Conversion

·         Time & Elapsed Time

·         Geometric objects, Properties & Shapes

·         Symmetry

·         Congruent & Similar Figures

·         3- dimensional solids

·         Perimeter, Area, & Volume

·         Points, Lines, & Line Segments

·         Perpendicular, Parallel & Intersecting Lines

·         Symmetry & Transformations

·         Polygons, Quadrilaterals & Triangles

·         Perimeter, Area & Volume

·         Graphing

·         Predict Probability

·         Graphing

·         Predict Probability

·         Plant and Animal Life Cycles

1)    Living and Nonliving

2)   Plant Life Cycle Begins

3)   Germinating Seeds

4)   Meet the Fruit Fly

5)   Observing the Fruit Fly

6)   Plant Growth

7)   Seeds and More Seeds

8)   Inside a Flower

9)   Plant Life Cycle

10) Fruit Fly Life Cycle

11)  Plants and Animals

12) Death of Organisms

·         Earth Movements

1)    Our Earth

2)   The Earth’s Crust

3)   Rocks: Clues to the Past

4)   Convection Currents

5)   Continents Adrift

6)   Plates in Motion

7)   Ocean-Floor Spreading

8)   Subduction

9)   Building Mountains

10) The Vibrating Earth

11)  The Ring of Fire

·         Sound

1)    How Do Sounds Vary?

2)   Good Vibrations

3)   How Sound Travels

4)   How We Hear Sounds

5)   Bouncing Sound

6)   Musical Vibrations

7)   Loud and Soft

8)   High or Low

9)   Mounting Tension

·         Studying Michigan –Geography and Regions

·         Early Michigan-The First People and European Arrivals

·         Michigan Joins the United States- Statehood and The Civil War

·         Michigan Grows- New Century, Depression & World War

·         Michigan Today-Industry and Tourism

·         Who We Are

·         Acting as Images of God

·         The Perfect Image of God

·         The Church: The Person of Christ

·         Liturgical Seasons & Holidays

·         God Always Loves Us

·         Jesus, Our Example

·         Jesus is With Us

·         Acting as an Image of God

·         Liturgical Seasons & Holidays